Andrea Arnold Film Studies

As a female director,Andrea Arnold pays attention to the survival and growth of women in her works.As a British director,Arnold inherits the tradition of British realism and maintains the bottom perspective in her works.First of all,the uniqueness of Arnold’s films is closely related to her growing experience.Arnold added autobiographical writing of personal experience in her film creation.The selection and conception of the film theme have a strong personal style.Secondly,in Arnold’s films,female characters are marginalized by family and society at first,but as a female director,influenced by feminist movement and feminist theory,Arnold dispels male "gaze" by establishing women’s own eyes in her films.In this process,women have an epiphany,they realize that a perfect marriage and love is not the only way to grow up,so as to obtain a new self.Thirdly,in the face of the lack of bottom description in the current film,as well as the stereotype of the relevant marginal groups,Arnold still insists on focusing on the bottom vulnerable groups.In her films,the protagonists and heroines in this marginalized state of existence,loneliness often becomes their form of existence.Arnold’s writing of this kind of youth does not follow the line of fresh tenderness,but highlights the subjectivity.And in shaping the characters,she takes the characters’ feelings and reactions driven by sexual instinct as an important outlet to show the characters’ inner world.Finally,in Arnold’s films,the use of a large number of hand-held photography and follow-up lens makes the film restore the real life.At the same time,the addition of unique visual elements such as animal symbols gives the film strong poetic flavor.The combination of the two forms the audio-visual ideographic system of Andrea Arnold’s films.